Example Sentences

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As always, should you or any of your team be caught or killed or let a bookie sponsor your pants, the government will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2012

As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission Force be gunned down by the critics, Desilu's president Lucille Ball will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

From Time Magazine Archive

He will disavow an action that appears to him blameable, but not criminal.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

But to sign it with the mental reservation that one will disavow one's signature if the obligations undertaken become irksome, that is swindling.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon

"If we fail," the old barbarian urged, "we will disavow the act of our general; if we win—"!

From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin